Name a City Game......... Geography anyone

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Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, on the country's Atlantic coast. It is Senegal's largest city. Its position, on the western edge of Africa (it is the westernmost African city), is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

Dakar used to be the end point to "The Paris-Dakar" off road race. The race was forced to move to South America because of Political Instability in Africa. The race Will continue in South America in 2010 now called just "The Dakar".

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[Karen]

Reykjavik - a city in Iceland, and a good place to flee to in case of nuclear holocaust, as it is largely powered by geothermal energy, so could run greenhouses to grow food anyway, even if the outside world was locked in nuclear winter. See, my science fiction reading HAS taught me important things! Iceland is also such an isolated place that it is a interesting place for genetic studies, as there is a relatively small gene pool compared to "melting pots" like America, and Western Europe, and much of the geneology is written down since families arrived there. I have never been to Reykjavik, but my brudder, Lady's Human, has!

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Kitty Hawk is a town North Carolina, United States.

Kitty Hawk became famous after the Wright brothers from Dayton, Ohio selected a remote, barren nearby site upon which to make their first controlled powered airplane flights on December 17, 1903. The site, four miles (six kilometers) to the south near the sand dunes known as the Kill Devil Hills, was selected only because of the consistent, reliable winds and the privacy that the desolate area provided. With that small part done, the Wright Brothers returned once again to Dayton to resume their research and experiments.

The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber AV-19, the aircraft transport ship USS Kitty Hawk (AKV-1), and the Apollo 14 command module have been named for the town.

I can verify that the wind on these barrier Islands is relentless. I have tried bike riding and hang gliding and the wind made both impossible. All of the trees
on the island lean to the west looking somewhat like The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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[cassiesmom]

Kankakee, Illinois

Kankakee is a city in Illinois. It's south of Chicago along Interstate 57, part of the "tri cities" of Kankakee, Bradley and Bourbonnais. The movies "Chain Reaction" and "Road to Perdition" were partially filmed there. Some famous people born in Kankakee: actor Fred Mac Murray; Harold Gray, the creator of Little Orphan Annie; and Tyjuan Hagler, who plays football for Indianapolis Colts. Ex-Governor of Illinois George Ryan also got his political start out of Kankakee County - he's the one who instituted the moratorium on the death penalty, but then was convicted because of a scandal involving bribes for commercial drivers' licenses resulting in unqualified people driving trucks.

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[kokopup]

Edam is a city in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Around 7,380 people live in Edam. The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam.

The city of Edam was founded around a dam crossing the river E or IJe close by the Zuiderzee now known as the IJsselmeer in Around 1230.

Edam is famous as the original source of the cheese with the same name.

I spent some time in the Netherlands back in the early 60's ,while in the Navy , when The Zuiderzee (South Sea) was an inland salt water extension of the North Sea. When I returned in the late 90's the Salt water Sea had been seperated from the North Sea and converted to a fresh water lake.



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[Randi]

They sell Edam cheese here also, but I prefer cheddar.

Madrid is the capital of Spain. It's a wonderful city and has a population of 3.213.000. Madrid is located on the river Manzanares in the centre of both the country and the Community of Madrid (which comprises the city of Madrid, its conurbation and extended suburbs and villages); this community is bordered by the autonomous communities of Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha. As the capital city of Spain, seat of government, and residence of the Spanish monarch, Madrid is also the political centre of Spain.

Furthermore, Madrid has some of the best tapas bars in the world!

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[Barbara]

Düsseldorf- it is the city that has the biggest Japanese population in Germany

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Barbara
Düsseldorf- it is the city that has the biggest Japanese population in Germany

Great shopping, and I'm not even a shopper

Frankfurt am Main -------- Known in US as Frankfurt only

Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany,
with a population of about 670,000.

In English, this city's name translates into "Frankfurt on the Main" (pronounced like "mine"). A part of early Franconia, the inhabitants were the early Franks. The city is located on an ancient ford on the river Main, the German word for which is "Furt". Thus the city's name receives its legacy as being the "ford of the Franks".

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